The Postcard
A postally unused postcard published by W.G. MacFarlane of Toronto and Buffalo.
They state on the back of the card that it was printed in Germany.
Château Ramezay
The Château Ramezay is a museum and historic building on Notre-Dame Street in Old Montreal, opposite Montreal City Hall.
Built in 1705 as the residence of then-governor of Montreal, Claude de Ramezay, the Château was the first building proclaimed as a historical monument in Quebec, and is the province's oldest private history museum. It was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1949.
Over the years, the Château changed functions and owners several times, after Ramezay's descendants sold the manor to the fur-trading Compagnie des Indes.
Continental Army Headquarters
From 1775, it became the Canadian headquarters for the Continental Army when it seized Montreal. Benjamin Franklin stayed there overnight in 1776, while trying to raise troops to fight for the Americans in the American Revolutionary War.
Governor's Residence Again
After the conquest until 1849 the house was again used as a governor's residence, this time by the British governors. For official purposes it was known as Government House, and was the governor's official Montreal residence which complemented his other residence in Quebec City (the Chateau St. Louis), and a country retreat in Sorel.
University Building
In 1878, the building opened its doors to host Université de Montréal's first Faculty of Medicine.
Museum
The building was bought by the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Montreal and converted into an historical museum and portrait gallery in 1894. Sir Andrew Taylor designed alterations to the Chateau in 1895.
Today, the museum's collection is composed mainly of gifts from private Montrealers and is estimated at 30,000 objects, including manuscripts, printed works, numismatic items, ethnological items, works of art, paintings, prints and furniture.
From 1997 to 2002, the Château Ramezay underwent indoor and outdoor restorations, including the creation of the Governor's Garden, inaugurated in 2000. In 2003, the Château Ramezay Museum earned the National Award of Excellence from the Landscape Architects of Canada. It has greeted more than a million visitors.
Montreal
Montreal is the most populous municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec, and the second-most populous municipality in Canada as a whole, after Toronto.
It is situated 258 kilometres (160 mi) south-west of Quebec City.
Originally called Ville-Marie, it is named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill in the heart of the city. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal, which took its name from the same source as the city, and a few much smaller peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard.
It has a distinct four-season continental climate with warm to hot summers and cold, snowy winters.
In 2016 the city had a population of 1,704,694.
French is the city's official language, and is the language spoken at home by 50% of the population of the city, followed by English at 23%.
Montreal is the second-largest primarily French-speaking city in the world, after Paris.
Historically the commercial capital of Canada, Montreal was surpassed in population and in economic strength by Toronto in the 1970's. It remains an important centre of commerce, aerospace, transport, finance, pharmaceuticals, technology, design, education, art, culture, tourism, food, fashion, gaming, film and world affairs.
Montreal has the second-highest number of consulates in North America.
In 2017, Montreal was ranked the 12th most liveable city in the world by the Economist Intelligence Unit in its annual Global Liveability Ranking, and the best city in the world to be a university student in the QS World University Rankings.
